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• Roy te Dorsthorst, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jacoba Maria van Stipdonk, Geldrop († 1980)

• Anna Simons (72), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Beila Agulnik
• Berdina Johanna Maria van Ditshuizen (90)
• Aliga Scott Crecy (61), Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
• Alfredo Robles Medina (75), La Valley, Colorado, Mariposa, California, USALa Valley, Colorado, Mariposa, California, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Klaassen (79), Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bessie ZEILENGA (71), Illinois U.S.A
• Angelica Petrus Josephus Van Vlasselaer (82), Aarschot, Brabant, Belgium
• Barbara Groenenschild (76), Heerlen
• Arent Johan de Vries (83), Joure

• 1977 » Gregory Ball, American captain and politician
• 1977 » Musiq Soulchild, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 » Brian Sims, American lawyer, politician, and LGBT activist
• 1978 » Claudia Marx, German runner
• 1978 » Dan Dickau, American basketball player and coach
• 1978 » Sensei, Mexican wrestler
• 1979 » Bobby Korecky, American baseball player
• 1979 » Fanny, French singer
• 1980 » Kenny van Weeghel, Dutch wheelchair racer
• 1980 » Patrik Štefan, Czech ice hockey player

• 1973 » Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, teacher and theatre director (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1977 » Maria Callas, Greek operatic soprano (b. 1923)
• 1980 » Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (b. 1935)
• 1987 » Christopher Soames, English soldier and politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1920)
• 1991 » Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (b. 1895)
• 1992 » Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (b. 1910)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Richard
11. Michael
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Erik
15. Gerrit
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Wendy
3. Marieke
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Sandra
7. Johanna
8. Linda
9. Vanessa
10. Judith
11. Monique
12. Esther
13. Jessica
14. Patricia
15. Jennifer
16. Petra

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
• May 28 » Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
• July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
• December 12 » The 8.2 M_w  Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami.

The temperature on September 16, 1979 was between 3.4 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.